hostip

A simple Ruby Gem wrapper for hostip.info

Includes a command line tool hostip to get all information from the command line as well

example

require 'hostip'

hip = Hostip.new

# get current ip
hip.ip

# get current country
hip.country_name
# get country abbriviated
hip.country_abbrev
# get current geo location
hip.geo_location

# all this also works for a given ip like 74.125.77.104 (google.com)
hip.geo_location "74.125.77.104"
hip.country_name "74.125.77.104"

command line

$ hostip --help
hostip version 0.2.0
Usage: hostip [options]
    -v, --version                    display version
    -h, --help                       display help
    -V, --verbose                    be more verbose
        --city                       get the city only i.e. Munich
        --geo                        get longtitude and latitude, i.e. 12.45, 12.23
        --country                    get the country i.e. Germany
        --country-abbrev             get the country abbreviation i.e. US

license

(the BSD license)

Copyright 2013 Philipp Fehre. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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